What are the success stories of desert to oasis?

Forest and grass vegetation increased from 0.9% to 25%, and the wasteland turned into grassland - Maowusu Desert.

Since 1959 to the present, the Mao Wusu Desert has more than 6 million acres of sand has been managed, 80% of the Mao Wusu Desert stop sand green, the Yellow River's annual sand loss of at least 4 tons.

Maowusu Desert is one of the four major sandy areas in China, with a slightly higher geographic location of about 1,100-1,300 meters, and the loose sand layer is easily formed into quicksand by wind transport. The successful management of the Mao Wusu Desert marks a major miracle in turning China's deserts into oases.

Guardian of the Earth Award - given to the builders of the Sehanba forest.

Sehanba is located on the border between China's Inner Mongolia Plateau and the mountains of northern Hebei province, and "the dam is a vast place where no one can be seen," which is how people of the older generation assessed the early days of the Sehanba.

From 1962 to 2018, the area of forested land in the Sehamba Forest increased from 240,000 acres to 1.12 million acres, the forest coverage rate grew from 12% to 80%, and the survival rate of afforestation reached more than 90%. Once yellow sand covering the sky of barren sand, transformed into a million acres of forest sea, which is another great miracle of China's desert into an oasis.

Sea of death" Kubuzi Desert.

The yellow sand, no grass, this is the most graphic comment on the former Kubuqi Desert. It is also such a desert, after more than 30 years of transformation and restoration, the desert area of the governance area to reach a staggering 6,000 square kilometers.

The Kubuqi Desert is now full of greenery and vitality, and has been recognized by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) as a "Global Desert Eco-Economic Demonstration Area".